Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Should we use scrolled_window_new instead of gtk_scrolled_win
On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:29 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
a) make the preference setting "Vertical scrollbar placement" take
effect for every scrolled window, not only the ones where currently
our function is used.
So is there some GTK+ or GNOME preference to let users select where
they want their scrollbars (in which case we should honor it - if
it's GNOME, presumably we'd do so only if GNOME is being used), or is
that purely left up to the application?
This setting is in "our" Preferences dialog, I don't know if there is
such a one in the common GTK+ / GNOME preferences. What are you
thinking of here exactly?
I was wondering whether there was some notion in GTK+ or GNOME of
scrollbar placement being a global preference that a user should be
able to set for all {GTK+,GNOME} applications.
Sun's OpenWindows had such a setting - I don't know whether it affected
only XView applications or also affected other OPEN LOOK toolkits such
as OLIT (it probably didn't affect non-OPEN LOOK toolkits):
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-2901/6jc3a4m10?a=view
Motif appears to have X resources to control scrollbar placement, at
least for text widgets:
http://www.ist.co.uk/motif/books/vol6A/ch-18.fm.html
"The XmNscrollLeftSide and XmNscrollTopSide resources take Boolean
values that control the location of the ScrollBars within the
ScrolledWindow. By default, XmNscrollTopSide is set to False, which
causes the ScrollBar to be placed below the ScrolledWindow. The default
value of XmNscrollLeftSide depends upon the value of
XmNstringDirection. These two resources should not be set by the
application, but left to users to specify themselves."
so presumably the user would either tweak their X settings manually to
choose where scrollbars should be put, or might have some nice
preferences editor to control that (although I suspect not).
I don't see anything obvious in the KDE documentation for any class
with "scroll" in its name specifying either APIs or preference settings
to control the location of scrollbars (in fact, I don't see any kdeui
library classes with "scroll" in their names at all), or do I see
anything for QScrollView in the Qt documentation; the pictures in the
documentation for QScrollView show only scrollbars on the right and
bottom.
